Marcel Proust (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

An avid critic and translator, Marcel Proust is best remembered as author of the semiautobiographical long novel of French expressionism, The Remembrance of Things Past.

This book examines the major works of Marcel Proust through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on Marcel Proust, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

Contents:

Proust and time embodied / Julia Kristeva
The lamp of truth : Proust and George Eliot / Robert Fraser
Zipporah : a Ruskinian enigma appropriated by Marcel Proust / Cynthia J. Gamble
Proust's japonisme : contrastive aesthetics / Jan Hokenson
Proust's turn from nostalgia / Susan Stewart
Orpheus and the machine : Proust as theorist of technological change, and the case of Joyce / Sara Danius
Introduction to Proustian passions / Ingrid Wassenaar
The vast structure of recollection : from life to literature / William C. Carter
Albertine's bicycle, or, Women and French identity during the Belle Epoque / Siân Reynolds
The ending of Swann revisited / Anthony R. Pugh
Jean Santeuil and the notion of avant-texte : a case for an extension of the term? / Maureen A. Ramsden
Ethics, meaning, and the work of beauty / Gabrielle Star